Improvement in suspension safes or sideboards



UNITED STATES JosEPH nissen, oF LAwnENcnBUne, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENSION SAFES OR SI'D'EBOVARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,711, dated January O, i874; application filed December 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l', JOSEPH RissEL, of Lawrenceburg', Dearborn county, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Suspension Safe or Sideboard, of which the following is a speciication:

My invention relates to a safe or sideboard for containing provisions of any kind, which safe consists, essentially, of one or more shelves or tables, secured to a hollow shaft, that is capable of sliding freely upon a rod or pipe depending from the ceiling of the room whereinthe sideboard is located. Secured to the aforesaid tubular shaft are ropes, which, afterpassing around suitable sheaves, have counterbalancing-weights attached to them, so as to render the elevating and lowering of the safe a comparatively easy and certain operation. Accidental loweringy of the safe is prevented by means of a springy bolt or catch, that is secured to the table-shaft, and is adapted to engage with either one of a series of notches cut in the fixed rod that depends from the ceiling.

During the summer season, the shelf or `shelves may be `surrounded with a .suitable screen, composed of mosquito-bar,wire-gauze,

orany other material that will protect the contents of thesafe from the depredations or detilements of insects, &c.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of my suspensionsafe in its lowered or depressedposition, the screen being removed. Fig. 2 is a similar section, showing the safe elevated and surrounded with the screen. Fig. 3 is an enlargedA ,transverse section through the hollow shaft `and inclosed notched rod in the plane of the `spring-bolt, and Fig. et is an axial section through a modiiied form of my safe.

down on the same, is a tubular shaft or stem,w

C, having a collar, c, at its upper end, and another` one, c', near its lower end. Secured to this hollow shaft, between its lower eollar c e and the xed annulusqD, is a shelf or table, E,

to maintain the leg G eitherin its vertical or horizontal position. Projecting downwardly from the annulus D are handles d, which ena ble the shaft C to be rotated when in its elevated position. Attached to the hollow shaft G, near the upper end thereof, is the` case or housing h of a spring bolt or catch, H, whose inner end is adapted to engage with either of Within said groove by the cord or elastic band j. Another 'band or draw-string, j', contines the lower portion ofthe screen around the table, so as to effectually exclude insects from the provisions placed upon said shelf. 'Located between the disk I and upper collar o is a ring, K, from which radiate two diametrically-opposite arms, k k', whose ends terminate in eyes l l. Attached to these eyes are ropes L L', which, after being rove around sheaves M M', have weights or other counter-balances N N applied to them.

In order to confine these counter-balances to a vertical path when they are raised and low-` ered, I provide them with guiding-rings u n', through which the ropes L L pass, as clearlyr shown in Fig. 1. The sheaves M M are journaled in arms O O', which may be maintained at any desired elevation upon the -fixed rod B by set-screw o.

When my suspcnsionsafe is lowered, so as to allow provisions to be placed upon the shelf E, orto be removed therefrom, the legs G are secured in an erect position, and rest upon the floor of the room,the screenJ having been first entirely removed or drawn aside. In this depressed position of the sideboard,the springbolt H en gages with the lowerlnost of the notches b, and thereby prevents the shelf descending any farther, in case the legs thereof should be accidentally sprung inwardly.` Inthis lowered position, the shelf E should be about on a level with an ordinary table, so as to be conveniently reached, and turned around, if neces- SI-F I.

hen it is desired to elevate the safe, the screen J is applied to the disk I and drawn tight around the shelf E, after which the legs Gr are folded up and secured in ahoriZontal position. The safe is then elevated bodily, care being taken to keep the spring-bolt Hin the same plane as the notches b, and when the desired elevation has been attained, said bolt is allowed to engage With the proper notch, and

thereby maintain the safe securely in position.

Owing tothe provision of counter-balance'sN N', the act of elevating the safe and its contents is a very easy one, and can be accomplished in a few moments. To again lower the safe, it is necessary first to rotate the shaft C either to the right or left, so as to disengage its catch H from the support-ing-notch, after which the table is allowed to descend Without hinderance, on account of said catch traversin g the smooth or unnotehed side of the bar B.

Having descended as far as desired, the shaft C is then rotated ina reverse direction, so as to bring its catch in line With the notches b. The engaged position of the aforesaid catch is clearly shown in Fig'. 3, and its unslipped or disengaged position indicated therein with dotted lines. The handles d enable the shaft C to be rotated with facility when the safe is elevated.

Instead of' the countenbalances N N' being located between the rod B and ro'pes L L', as in Fig. l, they may be placed at the sides of the room, or Within the Walls of the same, in either of which cases the rope should proceed horizontally from the sheaves M M', as seen in Fig 2 ,.or the support B can be composed of gas-pipe, and have a rope, I?, passed downl left, or they may be free to rotate around said shaft.

I claim as my inventionl. The within-described suspension safe or sideboard, consisting essentially of the support n B, having the notches b, tubular slide C, carrying one or more shelves, E, the springcatch H, the suspension-rin g K, ropes 'L L', sheaves M M', and counter-balances N YN', substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the guided and counterbalaneed slide C, carrying one or more shelves, E, and the folding legs G, attached to the bottom of the same by brackets F, substantially as specied.

3. The combination of the guided and counter-balanced slide C, carrying one or more shelves, E, the disk I7 having the peripheral groove i, the screen J, and cord j, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand. f

JOSEPH RISSEL.

Witnesses: Y

S. B. SPEAR, JAMES H. LAYMAN. 

